Walkscore.com ranks Seattle as the sixth most walkable city in the country, well behind top dog San Fran, but ahead of utopian Portland. How could this be? Because Walkscore’s methodology doesn’t take topography and public transit into account, which is kind of like ranking the prominence of skyscrapers without taking height into account.
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